Kamal:
secularism is exclusively for the benefit of the minorities.
*** You are right in a way. In an environment where secularism was
installed and repeatedly asserted as a national creed there must have
been a crying need for it.
What could that need have arisen from? From a society where the
majority religion treated the minorities fairly and humanely and
their freedom of religion was never infringed upon as Ram asserted
vehemently, or in an environment all of the above might have been
absent from?
You take a wild guess :-).
And having found the correct answer, you tell me if secularism in
India therefore is about not offending majority sentiments, or about
protecting minority rights?
Having said that I would agree with your reaction to banning of
Pandey's movie, if it were a true depiction of the Christian church's
credo or ethos in India. But if it were not, like the portrayal of
Bodos as brutal cannibals ( as BSF Chief Musahary spoke of) by the
Bollywood movie director Mani whats-his-name, then it would be fair
game for those whose sensitivities were offended. By the same token,
if the portrayal of the Hindu priest/s were similarly incorrect
portrayal/s, the offended Hindus too would be in their right to
protest, but unlike the VHP preventing the filming of the episode of
Fire by the woman film-maker about the plight of Hindu widows at
Varansi. Wouldn't you agree?
c-da
At 7:41 PM -0700 6/9/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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The following finishing lines got deleted from my previous
mail---" yet no whimper or squeak was heard then.You see,for
secularist,secularism is exclusively for the benefit of the
minorities.Say one word against them,you are in a super duper sh---t.
KJD
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